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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Axibase vs. RocksDB vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

iotdb.apache.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

rocksdb.org

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Axibase Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2018

2013

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

15585

9.2.1, May 2024

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
Native API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

yes

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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Licensing and pricing models

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